Hacker Attack on the Holodomor Museum Website

News 14 August 2019

On August 12, at 13:34, a letter from the virtual hosting service of FREEhost.ua about the attack on the official site of the museum came to the official mail of NM "Holodomor Victims Memorial." The letter said, "There was a problem with your MEMORIALG account. A rather powerful DDOS attack was conducted onto your site. This resulted in a server malfunction. A list of concurrent site requests is given below."

Referrals to the site of the museum, as noted by the hosting service, occurred mainly onto the Russian and English versions of the site.

It is still unknown who and for what purpose decided to damage the site of the National Museum. The site contains archival materials about the genocide of the Ukrainian people, the Geo-Informational System "Mass Graves", launched in 2018 with the support of the Ukrainian Cultural Fund, as well as a list of victims of the Holodomor.

The case was referred to the Security Service of Ukraine.

The site was unlocked on the evening of August 13, and work is conducted in order to strengthen the protection of our Internet resource and to avoid similar problems in the future.

We remind that on March 29, 2019, the fact of the creation of a fake site of the Museum http://memorialholodomors.org.ua was revealed by the employees of the Holodomor Victims Memorial.